Machine Learning Engineer (Remote - Canada)

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, C++, Infrastructure as code, Java Programming, Large Language Models - LLMs, Machine learning techniques, MLOps tools, Operations, Python Programming, SPARK Programming, SQL, TensorFlow, XGBoost

Job Description

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

Yelp’s mission of connecting people with great local businesses requires the use of cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to scale across a vast and diverse base of users and businesses spanning various geographical locations. As an ML engineer, you will have the opportunity to foster these connections across millions of users and business listings using cutting-edge industry tools such as neural networks (NNs), large language models (LLMs), and traditional ML methods like XGBoost or linear models. You’ll be responsible for turning raw data into valuable signals and building the ML system end-to-end. This includes the full ML lifecycle from training models to deploying them in production, as well as contributing to the ML platforms these models rely on or MLOps.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

• Conduct end-to-end analyses, wrangling data via SQL or Python, to statistical modeling, to hypothesizing and presenting business ideas.
• Work with large and complex datasets.
• Support the development and deployment of projects involving machine learned models for offline, batch-based data products as well as models deployed to online, real-time services.
• Work in areas such as home feed, search, ads targeting, spam, and photo understanding.
• Productionize and automate model pipelines within Python services.
• Drive and advocate adoption of best practices in MLOps (Machine Learning Operations).

What it takes to succeed:

• Experience developing and productionizing machine learning models, including their supported data pipeline.
• Experience with machine learning using packages such as TensorFlow, Spark MLlib, XGBoost, Sklearn, etc.
• Strong coding skills in Python or equivalent (Python, Java and C++).
• Solid understanding of engineering and infrastructure best practices.
• The curiosity to uncover promising solutions to new problems, and the persistence to carry your ideas through to an end goal.

What you'll get:

• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
• You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488.

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